Quote - > Quote - > Quote - but i do see a huge difference between being inspired by something thats basically a cultural/media icon and making knockoffs of a fellow poser merchant's original work.

An interesting ethical distinction you've made here (and the choice of language -- you are "inspired" by Frazetta, but a fellow merchant is "making a knock-off") and the moral reasoning that this is so, is the market? 

Kinda what I was thinking.

May it be, that different words mean different things? To be inspired, just for example, by Giger's unique art does not mean that one would try to recreate what Giger has done, with small changes. It would mean that you would take certain elements from Giger, to incorporate it in your art, but keeping it original enough that you can call it yours.

I do have many of Blackhearteds models. I do have Frazella, the original Girl Next Door set for V2 as well as Ki, which I still prefer when I need a petite model. I never had the feeling that one of those shapes or textures weren't original enough, or shaped after some prominent, recognizable original. Of course, Frazella was inspired by the Frazetta pictures, but not in the sense that you could point at some modell and say "That's her".

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